BA International Relations and Military History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB-CCC IB: 30-26
About this course
BA in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Research Methods. Students choose from around 20 modules in their second and third years, spanning Napoleonic-era warfare through to contemporary security and intelligence studies. A Parliamentary Placement Scheme offers three-to-four-week placements with an MP, and a semester abroad is available across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific.
Modules
- Exploring the International 1: Central Concepts and Core Skills
- The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789
- Behind the Headlines
- Globalization and Global Development
- Politics in the 21st Century
- War, Strategy and Intelligence
- Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
- A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
- America at War: A Military History of the United States
- China From the Opium War to the Present
- Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
- Contemporary Latin America
- Devolution and Wales
- International Relations: Perspectives and Debates
- Intervention and Humanitarianism
- Making Sense of Secrets: Intelligence Analysis in Theory and Practice
- People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today
- Political Theory
- Politics in Diverse Societies
- Questions of International Politics
- Russian Security in the 21st Century
- Science, Technology, and International Relations
- Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
- Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
- The BRICS in World Politics
- The Century of the Superpowers and the Global Cold War
- The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
- The Second World War in Europe
- Total War, Total Peace
- Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
- Dissertation
- A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
- America At War: a Military History of the United States
- China From the Opium War to the Present
- Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
- Contemporary Latin America
- Devolution and Wales
- Intervention and Humanitarianism
- Making Sense of Secrets: Intelligence Analysis in Theory and Practice
- Political Theory
- Politics in Diverse Societies
- Questions of International Politics
- Russian Security in the 21st Century
- Science, Technology, and International Relations
- Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
- The BRICS in World Politics
- The Century of the Superpowers and the Global Cold War
- The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
- The Second World War in Europe
- Total War, Total Peace
- Trade Wars and the Liberal Order